UID:
almahu_9949385199602882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781000415438
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1000415430
,
9781003129875
,
1003129870
,
1000415473
,
9781000415476
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in comparative literature
Content:
This book makes the case that the idea of a "world" in the cultural and philosophical sense is not an exclusively Western phenomenon. During the Cold War and in the wake of decolonization a plethora of historical attempts were made to reinvent the notions of world literature, world art, and philosophical universality from an anticolonial perspective. Contributing to recent debates on world literature, the postcolonial, and translatability, the book presents a series of interdisciplinary and multilingual case studies spanning Europe, the United States, and China. The case studies illustrate how individual anti-imperialist writers and artists set out to remake the conception of the world in their own image by offering a different perspective centered on questions of race, gender, sexuality, global inequality, and class. The book also discusses how international cultural organizations like the Afro-Asian Writers' Bureau, UNESCO, and PEN International attempted to shape this debate across Cold War divides.
Note:
China and the restaging of Afro-Asian World literature -- Moravia's presidency of PEN international -- Translating anticolonial universality in Gramsci and Pasolini -- The singular universal in Sartre's Lumumba preface -- Malraux's imaginary museum of world art -- Huang Yong Ping's competing universalities.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780367655204
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0367655209
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032044569
Additional Edition:
ISBN 103204456X
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003129875
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003129875
